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Content available remote Hotel location in Africa’s world class city: The case of Johannesburg, South Africa
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Rogerson J. M.
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
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2014
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tom 25
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nr 25
181-196
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Urban tourism is of rising importance for economic and tourism geographers. One of the most important elements for urban tourism is the hotel economy. Against a backdrop of international debates around the location of hotels in cities in both developed and developing countries this article unpacks the changing geography of hotels in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg for the period 1990 to 2010. Johannesburg is one of the leading and growing destinations for urban tourism in South Africa. Its hotel scape has been radically transformed in the past two decades. It is shown that the shifting geography of hotel development in Johannesburg reveals a complex pattern of disinvestment in certain city spaces and subsequent reinvestment and re-vitalization of those spaces as well the changing patterns of hotel investment towards the new successful nodes of business and leisure tourism in the city.
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Re-Assembling the City in Ivan Vladislavić’s Novels
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Caraivan L.
Romanian Journal of English Studies
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2013
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tom 10
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nr 1
229-234
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The paper analyses the various aspects of the city as described by the South African writer Ivan Vladislavić in the novel Portrait with Keys. Hunters, gatherers and urban poachers are the inhabitants of the South African city bordering the veld, a city whose economic centre has been moved to the suburbs due to high rates of crime.
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Content available remote Transnational entrepreneurship in the Global South: evidence from Southern Africa
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Rogerson J. M. , Mushawemhuka W. J.
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
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2015
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tom 30
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nr 30
135-146
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Transnational entrepreneurship is an evolving field of research which occupies an interface between social and regional sciences. The phenomenon of transnational entrepreneurship is driven by entrepreneurs that migrate from one country to another whilst maintaining business-related linkages with their former country of origin and the adopted country. The most critical distinguishing feature of transnational entrepreneurs is bifocality or the ability to function across two different business environments. Most writings on transnational entrepreneurship concentrate on business individuals from the global South operating enterprises in the global North. Absent are empirical studies of the nature and behaviour of transnational migrant entrepreneurs who operate across or between emerging or developing economies. This South-South gap in international research concerning transnational entrepreneurship is addressed in the paper which provides an exploratory analysis of the nature of transnational entrepreneurship occurring in Southern Africa using evidence of Zimbabwean transnational entrepreneurs based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Content available remote A GIS approach to seismic risk assessment with an application to mining-related seismicity in Johannesburg, South Africa
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Liebenberg K. , Smit A. , Coetzee S. , Kijko A.
Acta Geophysica
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2017
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tom Vol. 65, no. 4
645--657
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The majority of seismic activity in South Africa is related to extensive mining operations, usually in close proximity to densely populated areas where a relatively weak seismic event could cause damage. Despite a significant decrease in mining operations in the Witwatersrand area, the number of seismic events appears to be increasing and is attributed to the acid mine drainage problem. The increased seismicity is raising concern amongst disaster management centres and in the insurance industry. A better understanding is required of the vulnerability and the size of the potential loss of people and infrastructure in densely populated Johannesburg and its surrounding areas. Results of a deterministic seismic risk, vulnerability, and loss assessment are presented by making use of a geographic information system (GIS). The results illustrate the benefits of using GIS and contribute to a better understanding of the risk, which can assist in improving disaster preparedness.
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Content available Evaluation of shallow groundwater suitability for irrigation purposes : A case study from Doornfontein area, South Africa
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Moges S. S. , Dinka M. O.
Journal of Water and Land Development
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2023
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tom no. 58
189--197
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The present study aims at evaluating the quality of shallow groundwater (SGW) and its suitability for irrigation purpose in the most urbanised part of Johannesburg city, South Africa. The SGW samples were collected in three consecutive years and analysed for 20 selected physicochemical parameters, and heavy metals. The results were compared with the South African water quality, and Food and Agricultural Organization irrigation water quality guidelines, and standard indices derived from laboratory outputs. The results of the study show that all physiochemical parameters and heavy metals were within the limits set by both guidelines for irrigation purposes, except for potassium (3.58 mg∙dm-3) and manganese levels (3.152 mg∙dm-3). The calculated irrigation parameter values of sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), sodium percentage (Na%), residual sodium carbonate (RSC), magnesium hazard (MH), Kelly’s ratio (KR) and permeability index (PI) were within the permissible range of irrigation water quality standards. The findings of this study provide helpful information for decision-makers such as utilisation of the studied groundwater for irrigation uses.
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Content available remote Mega events as a pretext for infrastructural development: the case of the All African Games Athletes Village, Alexandra, Johannesburg
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Gunter A.
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
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2014
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tom 23
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nr 23
39-52
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The hosting of mega events in the Global South has become a symbol of prestige and national pride. From the hosting of international mega events such as the world cup, to regional events like the Commonwealth Games, developing nations are hosting mega events frequently and on a massive scale. Often used as a justification for this escapade in hosting a mega event is the purposed infrastructural legacy that will remain after the event. From the bid documents of the London Olympics to the Delhi Common Wealth Games, the pretext of infrastructural legacy is cited as a legitimate reason for spending the billions of dollars needed for hosting the event. This paper looks at this justification in the context of the All Africa Games which was hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1999. It examines how the legacy infrastructure from this event has been utilised as a social housing development and how the billions of dollars spent on the infrastructural legacy of the games has been used by local residence of the city. The vast majority of the current residence of the All Africa Games Athletes’ Village have little recollection of the Games and do not feel that the housing stock they have received is of significantly better quality than that of other social housing. This points to the contentious claim that developmental infrastructure built through hosting a mega event is of superior quality or brings greater benefit to the end users. That is not to say that hosting a mega event does not have benefits; however, the claim of development through hosting, in the case of Johannesburg, seems disingenuous.
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Od Johannesburga przez Hage do Warszawy
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Bergen-Makala E. v. d.
Aura
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2003
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nr 02
4-6
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Jan Pronk, as a special envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, was responsible for the complicated and beleaguered preparations of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. He talks to Aura about the preparations, debates and the aftermath of the Summit.
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Jan Pronk jako specjalny wysłannik sekretarza generalnego ONZ Kofi Annana czuwał nad skomplikowanym i pełnym przeszkód procesem przygotowawczym do Światowego Szczytu Zrównoważonego Rozwoju w Johannesburgu w 2002 r. Dla AURY mówi o przygotowaniach, przebiegu, rezultatach i następstwach Szczytu.
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Content available The Trials and Tribulations of Zimbabwean Precarious Women Workers in Johannesburg: A Cry for Help?
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Hlatshwayo M.
Qualitative Sociology Review
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2019
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tom 15
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nr 1
62-85
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There is a growing literature on the conditions of Zimbabwean women working as migrant workers in South Africa, specifically in cities like Johannesburg. Based on in-depth interviews and documentary analysis, this empirical research paper contributes to scholarship examining the conditions of migrant women workers from Zimbabwe employed as precarious workers in Johannesburg by zooming in on specific causes of migration to Johannesburg, the journey undertaken by the migrant women to Johannesburg, challenges of documentation, use of networks to survive in Johannesburg, employment of the women in precarious work, and challenges in the workplace. Rape and sexual violence are threats that face the women interviewed during migration to Johannesburg and even when in Johannesburg. The police who are supposed to uphold and protect the law are often found to be perpetrators involved in various forms of violence against women. In the workplace, the women earn starvation wages and work under poor working conditions. Human rights organizations and trade unions are unable to reach the many migrant women because of the sheer volume of violations against workers’ rights and human rights.
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Content available remote Attempts on the ‘life’ of Johannesburg: Ivan Vladislavić’s Use of the City Portrait Genre
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Kębłowska-Ławniczak E.
Anglica Wratislaviensia
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2017
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nr 55
47-68
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This article examines the changing practice of urban portraiture in reference to a selection of postmillennial texts written by Ivan Vladislavić. These generically diverse texts trace and reflect on transformations sweeping Johannesburg after the fall of Apartheid, to some extent a metonymic representation of South Africa. An immediate impulse to inquire whether and, if so, how the writer explores the boundaries of portraiture, derives from an explicit textual and visual thematisation of the practice in two of Vladislavić’s works, i.e. the collection of “verbal snapshots” entitled Portrait with Keys and his joint interdisciplinary project, TJ& Double Negative, involving the writer and David Goldblatt, a South African photographer. The article concentrates primarily on the uses and adaptations of the city portrait genre. Vladislavić’s foregrounding of the genre category invites us to consider a series of questions: How does Vladislavić proceed with the appropriation and transformation of the traditional practice of city portrait? Do the portrayals of Johannesburg merely address the past? To what extent does Vladislavić propose contemporary adaptations of the practice? What happens to such categories as realism, accuracy, and likeness? What knowledge does portraiture generate? Finally, the article reflects on whether Vladislavić responds to the need for a new epistemological project in rendering the urban.
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Biltong dar slonca
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Szpakowicz I.
Kuchnia. Magazyn dla Smakoszy
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1998
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nr 04
54-57
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Swiatowy Szczyt w sprawie Zrownowazonego Rozwoju w Johannesburgu
51%
Aura
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2002
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nr 11
10
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Ewolucja pisana na nowo
51%
Wong K.
Świat Nauki
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2014
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nr 10
13
Czego oczekujemy od Johannesburgu?
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Rakiel-Czarnecka W.
Przyroda Polska
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2002
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nr 09
3
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Mozliwosci wspolpracy handlowej z RPA
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Przemysł Fermentacyjny i Owocowo-Warzywny
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1992
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tom 36
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nr 10
5
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